Major flooding on Vancouver Island from November 3, 2016 to November 14, 2016 has caused property and content damages. As a result of the damages sustained from this event, provincial Disaster Financial Assistance (DFA) has been authorized for qualifying claimants, such as home owners, residential tenants, small business owners, farmers, charitable organizations and local government bodies, who were unable to obtain insurance to cover these disaster-related losses.

Disaster Financial Assistance has been authorized for the following areas:

Alberni/Clayoquot Regional District

City of Port Alberni

Tseshaht First Nation

Strathcona Regional District

City of Campbell River

Mount Waddington Regional District

Town of Port McNeill

Comox Valley Regional District

City of Courtenay

Wuikinuxv First Nation (Oweekeno)

Information about Disaster Financial Assistance is available on the DFA web site at http://www.gov.bc.ca/disasterfinancialassistance. There you will find the DFA Application Form, ‘Disaster Financial Assistance Guidelines for Private Sector’, information bulletins about DFA and insurance and ‘One Step at a time – A Guide to Disaster Recovery’.

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